Petition to Restore Wilson High School Funding

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm convinced kaya has it out for ward 3 schools. She needs to go.

and after she admitted she is unable to run a decent middle school in DCPS. great work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure DCPS feels that Wilson parents will dig into their pockets to make up the difference, while other parents at other schools do not have the resources to do so.

This. I'm not a DC parent, but have been interested hearing about the schools as it relates to real estate. The expectation is that the PTA will pick up the slack, no? That's happening in the suburbs.... PTA expected to pay for playgrounds and equipment etc... Wilson seems to be falling pray to that squeeze even more so.

There seems to be a pervasive mythology that Wilson is the demographic equivalent of Mann or Janney. It's not. One-third of Wilson's students qualify for free and reduced lunch. Half the student body is OOB. 75% of students are non-white. And hundreds of the students meet the definition of "at-risk". It is both unrealistic and unreasonable to assume that Wilson parents will/can/should privately pick up the slack for DCPS's failure to adequately fund one of its schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure DCPS feels that Wilson parents will dig into their pockets to make up the difference, while other parents at other schools do not have the resources to do so.

This. I'm not a DC parent, but have been interested hearing about the schools as it relates to real estate. The expectation is that the PTA will pick up the slack, no? That's happening in the suburbs.... PTA expected to pay for playgrounds and equipment etc... Wilson seems to be falling pray to that squeeze even more so.

There seems to be a pervasive mythology that Wilson is the demographic equivalent of Mann or Janney. It's not. One-third of Wilson's students qualify for free and reduced lunch. Half the student body is OOB. 75% of students are non-white. And hundreds of the students meet the definition of "at-risk". It is both unrealistic and unreasonable to assume that Wilson parents will/can/should privately pick up the slack for DCPS's failure to adequately fund one of its schools.

Exactly. There are more at-risk students at Wilson that at Coolidge for example. I'm not sure how DCPS thinks at-risk students will be served with such a budget cut. Kaya et al does not seem to understand demographics at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure DCPS feels that Wilson parents will dig into their pockets to make up the difference, while other parents at other schools do not have the resources to do so.

This. I'm not a DC parent, but have been interested hearing about the schools as it relates to real estate. The expectation is that the PTA will pick up the slack, no? That's happening in the suburbs.... PTA expected to pay for playgrounds and equipment etc... Wilson seems to be falling pray to that squeeze even more so.

There seems to be a pervasive mythology that Wilson is the demographic equivalent of Mann or Janney. It's not. One-third of Wilson's students qualify for free and reduced lunch. Half the student body is OOB. 75% of students are non-white. And hundreds of the students meet the definition of "at-risk". It is both unrealistic and unreasonable to assume that Wilson parents will/can/should privately pick up the slack for DCPS's failure to adequately fund one of its schools.

Exactly. There are more at-risk students at Wilson that at Coolidge for example. I'm not sure how DCPS thinks at-risk students will be served with such a budget cut. Kaya et al does not seem to understand demographics at all.

The difference is that there are some high achievers at Wilson, Coolidge are almost all special education students and at-risk. Think they also have self-contained Emotionally Disturbed and Autism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If Wilson's funding is decreased, how will the school be able to support the crew, field hockey, and lacrosse teams? Will a decrease in funding mean that Wilson won't be able to support the 39 after school clubs, it currently has? WTF!!! Someone should do something about this travesty.

Wilson's crew team gets nothing from DCPS. Many other clubs also get nothing from DCPS. Check your facts.

[Anonymous]

To all those who voted for Muriel last year: looks like you and your kids are getting "Bowsered." Hate to say we told you so, but we told you so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Wilson's funding is decreased, how will the school be able to support the crew, field hockey, and lacrosse teams? Will a decrease in funding mean that Wilson won't be able to support the 39 after school clubs, it currently has? WTF!!! Someone should do something about this travesty.

Wilson's crew team gets nothing from DCPS. Many other clubs also get nothing from DCPS. Check your facts.

They have football and basketball, which are more inclusive of "One DC."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm convinced kaya has it out for ward 3 schools. She needs to go.

I wouldn't have agreed with you until Kaya basically said last year to Ward 3 parents: Stop demanding so much of DCPS. If you aren't satisfied, go private, charter or move out of DC. Others will take your place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To all those who voted for Muriel last year: looks like you and your kids are getting "Bowsered." Hate to say we told you so, but we told you so.

There wasn't a real alternative. At this pace, next time there will, within the Democratic primaries.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Thanks for raising this, Jeff.

I don't understand this language in the petition:

"DCPS receives $11,580 in foundation funding -- before additional funding for at risk, special education and English language learners -- for each student at Wilson but proposed to pass only approximately $6,000 in such foundation funding per student to Wilson."

Can you explain? Is DCPS diverting foundation funding from Wilson, in other words "stealing" the difference between $11,580 and the $8,307 you point out?

That is my understanding but I was not part of drafting the petition so I don't know for sure. I'll try to get a clarification.

Except Wilson is not "entitled" to that foundation funding. DCPS as a whole is funded based on enrollment but allocate across schools as it sees fit based on underlying costs, needs, economies of scale. Not signing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Thanks for raising this, Jeff.

I don't understand this language in the petition:

"DCPS receives $11,580 in foundation funding -- before additional funding for at risk, special education and English language learners -- for each student at Wilson but proposed to pass only approximately $6,000 in such foundation funding per student to Wilson."

Can you explain? Is DCPS diverting foundation funding from Wilson, in other words "stealing" the difference between $11,580 and the $8,307 you point out?

That is my understanding but I was not part of drafting the petition so I don't know for sure. I'll try to get a clarification.

Except Wilson is not "entitled" to that foundation funding. DCPS as a whole is funded based on enrollment but allocate across schools as it sees fit based on underlying costs, needs, economies of scale. Not signing.

Fine PP- don't sign. But how exactly is Wilson supposed to serve it's at risk population- which is close to 1/3 of enrollment -with such a cut in the budget?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To all those who voted for Muriel last year: looks like you and your kids are getting "Bowsered." Hate to say we told you so, but we told you so.

There wasn't a real alternative. At this pace, next time there will, within the Democratic primaries.

For the first time in memory in DC, there was a real alternative in the general election. But Muriel's "Platitudes to the People" campaign, in which she avoided taking a public stand on anything, won the day. Now that she is mayor, she feels that she can do whatever she wants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Thanks for raising this, Jeff.

I don't understand this language in the petition:

"DCPS receives $11,580 in foundation funding -- before additional funding for at risk, special education and English language learners -- for each student at Wilson but proposed to pass only approximately $6,000 in such foundation funding per student to Wilson."

Can you explain? Is DCPS diverting foundation funding from Wilson, in other words "stealing" the difference between $11,580 and the $8,307 you point out?

That is my understanding but I was not part of drafting the petition so I don't know for sure. I'll try to get a clarification.

Except Wilson is not "entitled" to that foundation funding. DCPS as a whole is funded based on enrollment but allocate across schools as it sees fit based on underlying costs, needs, economies of scale. Not signing.

Fine PP- don't sign. But how exactly is Wilson supposed to serve it's at risk population- which is close to 1/3 of enrollment -with such a cut in the budget?

The Wilson principal should play hard all and try to move out the "at risk" students to other schools unless Wilson gets extra funding for them.

[Anonymous]

Except Wilson doesn't have a principal. Remember? Kaya fired him and allegedly a main reason was failure to close the achievement gap. I guess the new principal will have to do that with less money. Why doesn't the chancellor explain how that's supposed to happen?

[Anonymous]

We got redistricted out of Deal, so we have to go private. No point in signing for Wilson to get money.

I never supported Bowser, but I did not think she'd be quite this bad